Some sample questions from this category:
* This scientist "split the atom."
* This young beekeeper scaled the world's highest mountain in 1953 and his life changed forever.
* Did he fly before the Wright Brothers? His neighbours thought he was crazy but he invented several ingenious machines. Sometime in 1902 or 1903 his aircraft lifted off, flew for a short distance and landed on a high hedge.
* He was an influential figure in NASA during the Apollo Project. Who was he?
* Bill Hamilton's innovation has had an impact far beyond the shores of New Zealand. What was it?
* This renowned author wrote "Owls do Cry" and her autobiography, "An Angel at my Table" was made into a movie.
* This soprano has performed on the world's opera stage for several decades.
* A New Zealander was the first person to run one hundred sub four-minute miles. Who was he?
* This Kiwi was a pioneer in plastic surgery during the Battle of Britain, successfully treating burned airmen.
* The Lord of the Rings Trilogy was filmed in New Zealand. It also had a New Zealand director. Who is he?
* Two Formula One winners have hailed from New Zealand. Who was the first who went on to start his own, highly successful team in 1963?
* In 1923, at the age of only 34, this famous New Zealand writer died of tuberculosis.
* The Urewera mural was stolen from the Aniwaniwa Visitor Centre in 1997. Who was the Timaru artist who painted it?
* Born in Gisborne in 1944, this soprano sang at the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana in 1981.
* Born in Rotorua in 1909 this woman was given the title Hine-o-te-Rangi by local Maori after making the first direct flight between England and New Zealand in 1936.
* There have been two New Zealand born and educated Nobel Prize winners. The first, for chemistry, was in 1908. The second, in 2000, also won his prize for chemistry. Who is the second?
* In March 1903, eyewitnesses in Waitohi say they saw this man crash into a 3-metre high gorse fence after traveling in the air for about 100 metres. If they are to be believed, he beat the Wright brothers by nine months!
* In 1963 this man became the first lefthander to win a PGA tour event.
* The movie ?Heavenly Creatures? saw Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh make their mark on the international film community. Who was the New Plymouth born seventeen year old discovered by the pair to take a lead role in this movie?
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